Burning Seeds: Fire Kitty Disguise Added in Patch 5.2

During the Patch 5.2 PTR, players noticed that Burning Seed had been datamined, which would allow players to "harness the essence of Fire granted to the Druids of the Flame." The buff given, Burning Essence, explicitly stated that players turn into a Druid of the Flame while in Cat Form. This sounded exactly like the fire kitty effect granted by Fandral's Flamescythe, except you didn't need to farm up the staff. What was the catch?

Well, nobody knew how to get them, which has led to a heated discussion if this item ever made it to live servers. Earlier today, Community Manager Crithto made a post that Burning Seeds were in fact available in game, but very well hidden--nobody had reported finding them since Patch 5.2 went live over a month ago.

Thanks to Bearface and Akrin for finding it and emailing me the intial details, and Serrinne, and Jasyla for going to Firelands with me!

These seeds are available from the portal by Majordomo Staghelm in Firelands. They look like tiny Amberseeds anyone can see, but only Druids can loot them. Druids can loot up to five at a time, and it appears five spawn at a time.

Since Burning Seed are BoA, they can be mailed to alts, letting Druids stockpile more from future raids. (Interestingly enough, this means you can mail it to a lower-level Druid alt and they can also use it.)

You either clear to the portal (accessible after the Gate-Keeper Baleroc is dead and the bridge goes down), or simply keep a lockout extended. They also respawn after a soft reset.

The seeds are consumed on use, and the buff persists through death, zoning, and shapeshifting. The buff lasts for an hour and works in combat as well, so even if you have a Fandral's Flamescythe, this is probably worth getting for the buff improvements.

Comments

Comment by jabin

on 2013-05-01T23:47:37-05:00

OMG. Very nice.

Comment by GDerkon

on 2013-05-01T23:49:09-05:00

Yeah!.. I was following this!..

Great work all ! :D

Comment by lans83

on 2013-05-01T23:54:17-05:00

I have yet to level my Druid past 30, and have run so many alts through that place already, I try to avoid it now on the rest. This will be one of the only incentives of going back through that place now. TYVM for finding this guys. Now I'm off to level my kittah.

Comment by Millidor

on 2013-05-02T00:00:27-05:00

WooT! Time to get farming.

Comment by Shoddythetroll

on 2013-05-02T00:04:39-05:00

The question is, does it work in combat?all I know it lasts 10 minutes per seed consumed.

Comment by Akrin

on 2013-05-02T00:10:07-05:00

The question is, does it work in combat?all I know it lasts 10 minutes per seed consumed.

They last for 60 minutes per use.

It works during combat.

I did notice that sometimes the fire kitty form didn't immediately apply after shifting to cat form (it took a second or so).

It also persists through death and shifting forms.

Comment by Adeeleia

on 2013-05-02T00:12:04-05:00

Somewhere, somehow.. I will find you and hug you. I love you for this. Now I can make all of my guildies jealous.

Comment by bearface

on 2013-05-02T00:16:22-05:00

Yea, the only way to lose the buff is to manually cancel it or let the 60 minutes expire.It also works on lvl 6+ druids, only need cat form...though you'd need a high-ish lvl druid to actually acquire them in the first place.

Comment by DomGF

on 2013-05-02T00:17:44-05:00

I cant believe you guys are so happy for this...So...its not bad you have to clear Firelands' first 5 bosses. But you can only carry 5 and if you want to keep the buff. Or keep logging every 50 minutes out of the character mid raid to send some more to make the game more enjoyable, because STILL to this day, they do not allow druids to keep costumes, which still, to this day, is stupid as hell.Honestly if you guys want to not have to farm this crap and you guys don't care so much about your dmg, you can equip the staff before pulling the boss. Then as soon as you attack you will gain the buff and you can use a macro to swap your weapon or whatever. You will keep the buff until you die, shape out of cat or the fight ends.Sorry to be a downer and a jerk, but i'm just so tired of the whole losing costumes and not being able to enjoy this game a little bit more and even feeling to re-roll a different class

Comment by perculia

on 2013-05-02T00:33:01-05:00

That's a really neat point about it working on low-level alt Druids.

Comment by bearface

on 2013-05-02T00:33:40-05:00

I think you're confused, to clarify you can have 5 on your Druid at a time. You can loot 5 and mail sets of 5 to any other toon on your account. Five seeds lasts a combined total of 5 hours, one hour per item. The costume is not lost on Zoning, Death or Shapeshifting. If you are too lazy to clear Firelands every week you could inherit a clear and extend the Lockout weekly, or as Ursoc@Illidan has discovered "You can get it with minimal effort. Just have to do Alysrazor trash, pull her, get the flight buff and fly over to Majordomo's room."

Comment by perculia

on 2013-05-02T00:40:29-05:00

Yeah, I just inherited a clear, took 5 min tops. Also, if you don't want to farm up the staff and want a better buff anyway, you can just inherit a clear and loot some seeds.

Comment by keltarking

on 2013-05-02T01:20:12-05:00

Should have been non-consumable.

Comment by clonzoo

on 2013-05-02T01:27:06-05:00

I cant believe you guys are so happy for this...So...its not bad you have to clear Firelands' first 5 bosses. But you can only carry 5 and if you want to keep the buff. Or keep logging every 50 minutes out of the character mid raid to send some more to make the game more enjoyable, because STILL to this day, they do not allow druids to keep costumes, which still, to this day, is stupid as hell.Honestly if you guys want to not have to farm this crap and you guys don't care so much about your dmg, you can equip the staff before pulling the boss. Then as soon as you attack you will gain the buff and you can use a macro to swap your weapon or whatever. You will keep the buff until you die, shape out of cat or the fight ends.Sorry to be a downer and a jerk, but i'm just so tired of the whole losing costumes and not being able to enjoy this game a little bit more and even feeling to re-roll a different class

Gotta agree with you. This is so &*!@ing useless and stupid, why don't give it to us as a passive that we can dissable or enable or even make the effect come when you transmog to the cursed wep. Warlock got green fires, why don't we get the fire druid skin. Not just in cat form, what about the fire druid skin for your normal form or boomkin for that matter? There is no way in hell I am going to grind for these stupid seeds, grinding and feeling obligated to play everyday is why I hardly play, this will just enhance that feeling of actually logging on to do the $%^&ing dailies and dungeons, and yes blizz, WE ALL FEEL OBLIGATED TO DO LFR FOR THE VALOR AND PERHAPS REP! Give us "The path of the fire druids" Quest or something along those lines, you changed warlock, what about giving the druids in general some &*!@ing love aswell?

Comment by Ashesofalar

on 2013-05-02T01:43:04-05:00

I just picked up 5 of em myself on my druid, just used a lockout from last week and walked in and was able to loot them even though it's an old lockout :D really happy about this since i never did get the staff and still don't have it. :D

Comment by Excelion

on 2013-05-02T02:32:45-05:00

Cool when random stuff like this gets discovered, doesn't happen that often these days with datamining and all that spoiling it ahead of time

btw the item says "not available to players" on the wowhead page

Comment by wolf1438

on 2013-05-02T03:35:59-05:00

Thanks a lot, now finally i can fit with my favorite battle pet Cinder Kitten

Comment by snuzzle

on 2013-05-02T05:21:47-05:00

btw the item says "not available to players" on the wowhead page

That's just because no one with the WoWhead client has gotten it.

That said, I agree with DomGF... I appreciate Blizz throwing us a bone here, but at the same time, why did they have to make it so gol-darned annoying to get? "All you have to do is kill this trash, and then pull the boss, and do this trick..." we shouldn't have to. Why not make it BOA and require exalted with the FL rep and a buttload of Marks of the World Tree? Or still make it consumable and cost a few Marks? This just seems like an unnecessarily annoying route to a cool buff costume that any other class gets dozens to choose from more easily. /grump